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Hi Waldemar, When expanded in BBH I get a green toggle link and a italic toggle text; in HTML Help I get a green toggle link and toggle text. Using CSS as described in the manual it's correct. Ah, now I see the problem. What's happening is that when you style both the toggle link and the inline togg...

Hi Waldemar, This is not an error, the expanding inline text is working exactly as it should. You are just trying to use it in a way that is not intended: What you are doing is making the expanded text part of the current sentence. This will probably confuse the user, particularly if the expanded te...

Hi Matthew, Tim, The underline topic links and paint in colour is off. Indeed, the active links are off too since I've got the Similar to a printed manual option set too. I'm actually using an included project so I can set the options for the print version, but even setting the option in the main pr...

Hi Natalya, The version of your HTML Help compiler is out of date - you are using 4.73.8198, the correct version is 4.74.8702. To correct this please download and install the correct version of the MS HTML Help Compiler here: http://www.ec-software.com/downloads_mscomp.html Before installing go to t...

Hi Natalya, There are some problems with searching in Russian in HTML Help with UTF-8 encoding due to the fact that the Microsoft HTML Help viewer is still not a Unicode-enabled program. Try turning UTF-8 encoding off -- if this works with the fonts you are using the search will then probably work b...

Hi Matthew, Tim: Will the HTML CSS be used at all for the PDF generation? No, I was in too much of a hurry when I posted the original reply and missed that you were also styling links for PDF. CSS styles will only have an effect on HTML-based output (HTML Help, Browser Help, eBooks, Visual Studio He...

Hi Frans,

In addition to this you can also add multiple rows and columns all at the same time by selecting Table > Table Properties and increasing the numbers in the Rows and Columns fields. The new rows will be added at the bottom, the new columns on the right.

Hi eekk, You enter the name and path of your output file in the Output File: field in the Compile dialog. If you don't change this the name of your project will be used -- so this means that you probably have spaces in your project name. After changing this once in the Compile dialog Help & Manu...

Hi Matthew, You can do this by adding CSS styles to your HTML template. You can find instructions explaining how to do this and a number of other useful things in the DHTML Examples tutorial, which you can find in My Documents\My HelpAndManual Projects\Samples\DHTML Examples . (If you are using vers...

Confirmed. I'm not sure whether this is a Help & Manual issue or a Reader issue. If you open a PDF generated in Help & Manual in the full version of Acrobat you can confirm that all permissions are OK, so the problem isn't the permissions as such, it must be something else. This is currently...

Hi Carol,

You were sent several replies from the support desk in the last couple of days, please check your spam filter and your spam folder. Just pack the CHM in a ZIP or RAR archive and mail it to support AT ec-software.com (replace the AT with @).

Hi Carol, It is not possible to say without looking at the CHM what the exact problem is. It could be that the import failed partially - Help & Manual can create HTML Help in Chinese, but not import (import may or may not work, depending on the source). To tell you more about this, it would be n...

Hi Franz, There is a special merge function with which you can do this. You just have to observe some rules for formatting the HTML files. For instructions and details see this chapter in the help: Basic Working Procedures > Importing Data into Existing Projects > Importing HTML and plain text files...

Hi Mike, No, there's no printout function for this at the moment and styles are also not included in the reports that you can generate with the Reports tool (Tools menu). The closest you can come to getting a style list is to compile to XML (if you have the Pro version, File > Compile > XML). Then y...

Hi Stefanie, To make this work you are going to have to reset the margins for the entire page very close to the edge of the page. This is necessary so that you can place the text objects for your colored tabs INSIDE the "bands" for the topic headings, otherwise they won't be linked to the ...